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Ringing in the New Year, Without an Empty Stomach
Like every week, the days between Christmas and New Years Day organizations in Ashland will provide food for people experiencing food insecurity. Amazing, grassroots efforts
Community Labryinth: A Walk into 2025
Ashland’s 26th Community Labyrinth Walk to New Year starts December 31 at 3:30 p.m. and runs until 10:00 p.m. New Years Eve. The event resumes
Homeless Woman Was in Labor and Needed Care, But Was Ticketed Instead
“This is an extreme incident, but unfortunately, it is not an isolated one. Instead of addressing the cause of homelessness—the fact that more and more
Survivors of Atomic Bombings Receive Nobel Peace Prize
Distinguished peace activist and Hiroshima A-bombing survivor, Hideko Tamura Snider, also honored This week, the distinguished Nobel Committee awarded their Peace Prize to Nihon Hidankyo,
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The City of Ashland’s monthly Housing and Human Services Committee meeting. Date & Time: December 26, 2024 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
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One of our biggest cultural events of the year is next Thursday, December 26. Make sure to register so you don't miss out on this year's Kwanzaa celebration featuring entertainment, a delicious meal, exciting prizes, dancing, […]
Ashland, OR 97520 United States
This event will take place at the Havurah Synagogue in Ashland on December 29 at 11 a.m. Unity Community of Ashland is proud to present American author, philosopher, and visionary […]
Our Work
Uncle Food's Diner
Uncle Food’s Diner delivered more than 100,000 free meals to people in need in the past two years. For the past 28 years, we have hosted a Free Community Dinner in Ashland by reconciling donated food items and coordinating volunteers to produce delicious, nutritious meals. Our program responds to the changing needs of our community.
Rogue Liberation Library
Rogue Liberation Library sends more than 600 books to people in prisons in 14 states, each month. Our mission is to provide quality books and reading material free of charge to incarcerated people to foster knowledge, communication, personal development, and well-being. We believe in the right to read, and see books as tools of liberation.
Human Rights
Since 1982, Peace House has lent its support for communities impacted by militarism and extractive industries in Central America. This includes those seeking asylum and human rights workers in Honduras. We now provide advocacy sponsorship for human rights accompaniment in Honduras with Committee for Families of the Detained, Disappeared in Honduras (CODEFAH).
Peace House Land Acknowledgment Statement
Peace House acknowledges that it is located on the ancestral homelands of the Shasta, Takelma, and Latgawa Nations, collectively known as the Rogue Tribes, who, along with other peoples who used the region seasonally, lived here since time immemorial. These and other Tribal Nations were forcibly removed from their homelands when European invaders inflicted genocide upon Indigenous communities and took control of land, water and natural resources abundant here in the mid 1800s. Euro-American colonization led to war, starvation, resource extraction, and epidemics that imperiled whole communities and irreversibly harmed sacred sites, rivers, and land across the region.
The US and Oregon State governments signed treaties with Tribal Nations, but broke nearly all of them in the decades to come, resulting in a full occupation of Tribal lands for the benefit of European migrants alone. Today, the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde and the Confederated Tribes of the Siletz represent many of the living descendents of the Takelma, Shasta, and Latgawa peoples.
Peace House recognizes the legacy of knowledge and resiliency of these and other Indigenous peoples. We support the affirming opportunities available from the Land Back movement, among other Indigenous-led initiatives for reconciliation. We recognize also that land acknowledgment statements are performative unless met with meaningful and sustained relationships with local Native communities.
Special thanks to Brook Colley and Dan Wahpepah for their contributions to this statement.
Rent A Room
Peace House and South Mountain Friends Meeting (Quakers) invite you to rent our home for your special class, presentation, discussion group, meeting or event. The South Mountain Home is equipped with a variety of room sizes, and full kitchen. We are conveniently located across the street from Southern Oregon University in Ashland.
We See the Connections
Peace House realizes that no peace is possible without justice. We address core issues with a heart-felt dedication to social justice and a culture of nonviolence. We provide an intersectional platform with partners around the world to address:
- Peaceful Resolutions to War & Nuclear Threats
- Racial Equity & Justice
- Food & Shelter Security
- Indigenous Rights & Reconciliation
- Environmental & Climate Justice
- Immigration & Central American Human Rights
- Women’s Equality & Reproductive Health Care
- Voting Rights & Democracy
- Gun Safety & Police Accountability
- LBGTQ Equality & Safety
- Rights of Incarcerated People & Civil Liberties